Analysing the human rights trials in Argentina established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations during the military dictatorship, this book addresses how and why domestic prosecutions can contribute to repairing the damage caused by mass atrocities.
Analysing the human rights trials in Argentina established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations during the military dictatorship, this book addresses how and why domestic prosecutions can contribute to repairing the damage caused by mass atrocities.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rosario Figari Layús is based at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany from where she holds a PhD in Political Science. Her areas of work and research are transitional justice, human rights and political violence.
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INTRODUCTION: "Small Victories" The Argentine Case: State Repression and the Path to Human Rights Trials Reparative Justice Victimhood and Justice Debates on the Social and Political Construction of Victims The Relevance of the Victims' Perspective in Argentina Fieldwork and Data Collection Structure of the Book PART I: Theoretical Approaches to Reparative Criminal Justice CHAPTER 1: Justice and Reparation of Human Rights Violations 1.1. Research on Human Rights Prosecutions 1.1.1. The Post Second World War Trials 1.1.2. The Transitional Justice Approach 1.1.3. The Debate for and against Prosecutions 1.2. What does Reparation Mean? 1.2.1. Civic and Legal Reparation 1.2.2. Personal Reparation 1.2.3. Social Reparation 1.3. Why Do Human Rights Trials Provide Reparation? 1.3.1. Communicating and Shaping Social Behaviour 1.3.2. Symbolic Effectiveness: Legitimacy, Acknowledgment and its Social Implications 1.3.3. The Power of Law: PART II: Implications of State Terror, Limited Justice and Impunity for Victims of Human Rights Violations CHAPTER 2: The Hallmarks of State Terror on Victims and the Wider Argentine Society 2.1. State Organised Violence in Argentina 2.1.1. The Military Dictatorship 2.1.2. Reconstructing the Meaning of State Violence 2.2. Forced Disappearance in Argentina 2.2.1. Repression and Denial 2.2.2. Psychosocial Consequences 2.3. The Erasure of Rights and the Attempts of Resistance 2.4. Terror and the Rupture of Social Bonds 2.5. Victims under Suspicion: Displacement of Responsibility 2.5.1. The Stigma of Surviving CHAPTER 3: Darkness and Light of the Military Juntas Trial 3.1. The Transition and the Military Obstacles to Accountability 3.2. The Promise of Justice 3.3. Limitations of the Juntas Trial 3.3.1. The Number of Prosecutions 3.3.2. Testifying in Fear 3.3.3. Silences in the Testimonies: The Reflection of Stigmatisation on the Judiciary 3.3.4. The Capital-centric Approach to Justice CHAPTER 4: "As if Nothing Had Happened." Legal Impunity and its Social Implications for Victims 4.1. The Era of Impunity 4.1.1 Partial Justice: Accountability for the Theft of Children and Truth Trials 4.2. Social and Political Implications of Impunity for Victims 4.2.1. Reproducing Fear: Victims at Risk 4.2.2. The Silence and Paralysis of Society 4.2.3. Indifference and Social Impunity 4.3. Public Support for Perpetrators 4.4. Victims as Second-Class Citizens PART III: Reparation through Domestic Human Rights Trials CHAPTER 5: An Introduction to Human Rights Trials in Argentina. Dynamics, Advances and Challenges 5.1. The Path towards Justice 5.2. Prosecuting Human Rights Violations in the Domestic Legal System 5.3. The Constellation of Actors in the Trials 5.4. The Dynamics of the Trials 5.4.1. Political and Bureaucratic Challenges 5.4.2. The Criminal Responsibility of Civil Actors 5.4.3. The Trials "In the Provinces" 5.4.4. Human Rights Policies in Times of the Macri Administration: Trials at Risk? CHAPTER 6: Towards Legal and Civic Reparation 6.1. Civic and Legal Reparation: Towards the Restitutions of Rights 6.2. The Right to the Truth: Reconstructing the Puzzle of the Past 6.2.1. The Incomplete Puzzle 6.3. Acknowledging and Legitimating the Victims' Voices CHAPTER 7: Reparation as Empowerment 7.1. Dealing with Fear 7.1.1. Facing Fear in Court 7.2. Breaking the Silence Inside and Outside of Court 7.2.1. Taboo 1: Denouncing Sexualised Violence 7.2.2. Taboo 2: Testifying on Political Militancy 7.2.3. The Other Face of Testimony CHAPTER 8: The Restorative Effects of Trials on the Victims' Social Context 8.1. Trials as Restorative Justice 8.1.1. The Restorative versus Retributive Justice Debate 8.2. Beyond the Victims: The Social Scope of Prosecutions 8.2.1. The Public Modality of the Trials 8.2.2. The Federal Scope of the Trials: "This also happened to us" 8.3. Social Inclusion. Making Victims Visible 8.4. Decrease in Public Support for Perpetrators 8.5. Towards a Social Framework of Reparation CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS Towards a Distinction in Criminal Prosecutions and Human Rights Trials
INTRODUCTION: "Small Victories" The Argentine Case: State Repression and the Path to Human Rights Trials Reparative Justice Victimhood and Justice Debates on the Social and Political Construction of Victims The Relevance of the Victims' Perspective in Argentina Fieldwork and Data Collection Structure of the Book PART I: Theoretical Approaches to Reparative Criminal Justice CHAPTER 1: Justice and Reparation of Human Rights Violations 1.1. Research on Human Rights Prosecutions 1.1.1. The Post Second World War Trials 1.1.2. The Transitional Justice Approach 1.1.3. The Debate for and against Prosecutions 1.2. What does Reparation Mean? 1.2.1. Civic and Legal Reparation 1.2.2. Personal Reparation 1.2.3. Social Reparation 1.3. Why Do Human Rights Trials Provide Reparation? 1.3.1. Communicating and Shaping Social Behaviour 1.3.2. Symbolic Effectiveness: Legitimacy, Acknowledgment and its Social Implications 1.3.3. The Power of Law: PART II: Implications of State Terror, Limited Justice and Impunity for Victims of Human Rights Violations CHAPTER 2: The Hallmarks of State Terror on Victims and the Wider Argentine Society 2.1. State Organised Violence in Argentina 2.1.1. The Military Dictatorship 2.1.2. Reconstructing the Meaning of State Violence 2.2. Forced Disappearance in Argentina 2.2.1. Repression and Denial 2.2.2. Psychosocial Consequences 2.3. The Erasure of Rights and the Attempts of Resistance 2.4. Terror and the Rupture of Social Bonds 2.5. Victims under Suspicion: Displacement of Responsibility 2.5.1. The Stigma of Surviving CHAPTER 3: Darkness and Light of the Military Juntas Trial 3.1. The Transition and the Military Obstacles to Accountability 3.2. The Promise of Justice 3.3. Limitations of the Juntas Trial 3.3.1. The Number of Prosecutions 3.3.2. Testifying in Fear 3.3.3. Silences in the Testimonies: The Reflection of Stigmatisation on the Judiciary 3.3.4. The Capital-centric Approach to Justice CHAPTER 4: "As if Nothing Had Happened." Legal Impunity and its Social Implications for Victims 4.1. The Era of Impunity 4.1.1 Partial Justice: Accountability for the Theft of Children and Truth Trials 4.2. Social and Political Implications of Impunity for Victims 4.2.1. Reproducing Fear: Victims at Risk 4.2.2. The Silence and Paralysis of Society 4.2.3. Indifference and Social Impunity 4.3. Public Support for Perpetrators 4.4. Victims as Second-Class Citizens PART III: Reparation through Domestic Human Rights Trials CHAPTER 5: An Introduction to Human Rights Trials in Argentina. Dynamics, Advances and Challenges 5.1. The Path towards Justice 5.2. Prosecuting Human Rights Violations in the Domestic Legal System 5.3. The Constellation of Actors in the Trials 5.4. The Dynamics of the Trials 5.4.1. Political and Bureaucratic Challenges 5.4.2. The Criminal Responsibility of Civil Actors 5.4.3. The Trials "In the Provinces" 5.4.4. Human Rights Policies in Times of the Macri Administration: Trials at Risk? CHAPTER 6: Towards Legal and Civic Reparation 6.1. Civic and Legal Reparation: Towards the Restitutions of Rights 6.2. The Right to the Truth: Reconstructing the Puzzle of the Past 6.2.1. The Incomplete Puzzle 6.3. Acknowledging and Legitimating the Victims' Voices CHAPTER 7: Reparation as Empowerment 7.1. Dealing with Fear 7.1.1. Facing Fear in Court 7.2. Breaking the Silence Inside and Outside of Court 7.2.1. Taboo 1: Denouncing Sexualised Violence 7.2.2. Taboo 2: Testifying on Political Militancy 7.2.3. The Other Face of Testimony CHAPTER 8: The Restorative Effects of Trials on the Victims' Social Context 8.1. Trials as Restorative Justice 8.1.1. The Restorative versus Retributive Justice Debate 8.2. Beyond the Victims: The Social Scope of Prosecutions 8.2.1. The Public Modality of the Trials 8.2.2. The Federal Scope of the Trials: "This also happened to us" 8.3. Social Inclusion. Making Victims Visible 8.4. Decrease in Public Support for Perpetrators 8.5. Towards a Social Framework of Reparation CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS Towards a Distinction in Criminal Prosecutions and Human Rights Trials
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